Urgency overpowers cognitive control by amplifying cognitive processing asymmetries.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive control is the functional backbone of intelligent behavior, because it allows to act according to one's intentions, even when the environment elicits opposed behaviors. Recently, it has been shown that reactions under urgency in a cognitive control task are dominated by stimulus-driven information and goal-directed actions are overpowered, as reflected by a temporary drop in performance below chance level in conflict situations. This effect was shown for eye movements as well as manual cognitive control tasks. Crucially, most previous studies used tasks that involved a natural processing asymmetry between the stimulus-driven information and the goal-directed information, leaving it unclear whether urgency affects cognitive control in general. Here, we investigated whether urgency

SUBMITTER: Krause A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12331796 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature